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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.

Angela Duckworth

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I ended up doubling the math time that a conventional school would have. But I don’t think any of these things were path-breaking or unusual.
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One of the challenges of commencement speeches is that you have this older, wiser person who is accomplished talking to young, not-yet-so-wise, not-yet-accomplished adults or, in high school or middle school, even younger.
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When I was 27 years old, I left a very demanding job in management consulting for a job that was even more demanding: teaching. I went to teach seventh graders math in the New York City public schools.
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There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.
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I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience.
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I would be surprised if my girls ended up as women without grit. I really would.
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There is a fluency and an ease with which true mastery and expertise always expresses itself, whether it be in writing, whether it be in a mathematical proof, whether it be in a dance that you see on stage, really in every domain. But I think the question is, you know, where does that fluency and mastery come from?
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We have found a direct correlation between grit and positive emotions, but the fact that I have no evidence that grit is bad for you doesn’t mean it’s not. It’s always a possibility that in the future researchers will discover a downside to grit.
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Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.
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To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it.
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As our knees and hips and eyesight deteriorate, we become more dependable, less impulsive, kinder, and less moody.
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Childhood is generally far too early to know what we want to be when we grow up.
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There are going to be peaks and valleys. You don’t want to let kids quit during a valley.
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Every day, parents and teachers ask me, ‘How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?’ The honest answer is, I don’t know.
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I think the questions on the grit scale about not letting setbacks disappoint you, finishing what you begin, doing things with focus, I think that those are things I would aspire to or hope for for all our children.
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Grit and self-control are related, but they’re not the same thing.
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